Send email when services are restored

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1

Hello, I’m writing a script that will check the availability/latency for a critical web page. It can alert when slow or down, but I would also like it to send an email when services are restored but I’m not sure how…

add-type @"
    using System.Net;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
    public class TrustAllCertsPolicy : ICertificatePolicy {
        public bool CheckValidationResult(
            ServicePoint srvPoint, X509Certificate certificate,
            WebRequest request, int certificateProblem) {
            return true;
        }
    }
"@
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::CertificatePolicy = New-Object TrustAllCertsPolicy

#0 = false
$hadError = 0

do
{
	try
	{
		$times = measure-command {$result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "www.website.com" }

		if($times.totalseconds -gt 10)
		{
			$hadError = 1 #error occured, changed to 1 or true
			
			#send email because the times are too long
			$body = "Latency is currently high, last observed time was: $($times.totalseconds) seconds"
								
			#mail on success
			$smtpServer = "1.1.1.1"
			$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
			$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
			$msg.From = "Events@domain.com"
			$msg.To.Add(@("ertuu85@domain.com"))
			$msg.Subject = "High API Latency"
			$msg.Body = $body
			$smtp.Send($msg)
		}
	}
	catch
	{
                        $hadError = 1 #error occured, changed to 1 or true
			#send email because the times are too long
			$body = "Services are down`r`n`r`n Powershell Error: " + $(($error[0]).exception.message)
								
			#mail on success
			$smtpServer = "1.1.1.1"
			$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
			$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
			$msg.From = "Events@domain.com"
			$msg.To.Add(@("ertuu85@domain.com"))
			$msg.Subject = "Down"
			$msg.Body = $body
			$smtp.Send($msg)
	}
	
	#somehow here it would be like
	if($haderror -eq 0)
	{
		#send email, all issues resolved
	}
	
	start-sleep 60
}until(1 -eq 2)

I would assume, in this case, $hadError would have to equal 1 or whatever if an error triggers but i’m not sure…because if an error doesnt trigger i dont want an email sending out every loop saying ‘all issues resolved’ or something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

2

You probably don’t want it just firing off emails saying “all’s well!” all the time. So what your’e going to have to do is set a flag - either a variable, or more ideally a file on disk - to indicate that a problem occurred. Then, when the script checks the status, if the flag exists and the status is okay, it clears the flag and sends an email.

3

Thanks for the reply, how would I put a flag in this so it would NOT ping each time? It’s easy enough to make $haderror = 1 on error, but when it’s fixed it will just trigger each time, not sure how to proceed.

Thanks again for the help

4

When you fix it, you need to set $haderror back to $false or 0 or whatever.

E.g., “if there is no error, and $haderror -eq 1, then set $haderror = 0 and send an all-clear email”